Are you folks aware of what's happening in India, has it made the news there ? Seems a large section of youth are "arising" .. protesting against ill-treatment of women ... there have been protests in my city for 13 or so days in a row, and I hear other cities are taking it on too. It was triggered by something horrible I don't want to mention -- would be great if our male-dominated society can finally wake up.

Are you folks aware of what's happening in India, has it made the news there ? Seems a large section of youth are "arising" .. protesting against ill-treatment of women ... there have been protests in my city for 13 or so days in a row, and I hear other cities are taking it on too. It was triggered by something horrible I don't want to mention -- would be great if our male-dominated society can finally wake up.

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Yes senti,I am aware of that horrible incident.It was high time people woke up to the atrocities committed by our male dominated society.But until unless our government listens to the people's demand it would be useless.You know the big reason government doesn't want to take a concrete action is because there are Rapists and Murderers in their own party.These goons act as a big support base for the govt and helps them in getting votes in the elections.Do you think they would trim their own feathers by convicting their own MP's and MLA's?? LOL...nope!

Welcome back, Senti! Your prolonged absence triggered a fear that ETs had abducted you. Was that the case and, if so, how did you arrange your release???

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They got sick of my useless facts and expelled me from their spaceship. Ack, I heard (as we were entering Uranus' atmosphere) that Nadal was not playing AO, and I told them chaps that you've gotta get me back to Earth, them guys NEED me bad.

They got sick of my useless facts and expelled me from their spaceship. Ack, I heard (as we were entering Uranus' atmosphere) that Nadal was not playing AO, and I told them chaps that you've gotta get me back to Earth, them guys NEED me bad.

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Slowly but surely your senses are returning.Good to see you back.Just wait till Rafa arrives,you might have to go on an exile again..

I have never heard of this beer. Is it a local Florida beer? Is it available in California or Europe?

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Although Yuengling is America's oldest brewery (est. 1829), it was only available in areas surrounding its home of Pottsville, PA until the late 80's. They then began building market share on the Eastern seaboard and Florida is a lucky recipient of this expansion. I do not believe they have yet reached out past the Mississippi...several Nebraska footballers I ran into last week in Orlando told me they can't yet get their products in Lincoln.

My favorite of theirs is an amber "traditional" lager but they also make a porter and a "Black and Tan" that's pretty tasty.

^^^Good luck on your trip to the "Biggest Little City"! You're a bit late if you were traveling there for a cameo on Reno 911...maybe settle for a seat at the roulette table and play "18" while humming Alice Cooper's teen anthem.

Astronomers have discovered a huge formation of 73 quasars representing the largest structure yet observed in the universe.

The quasar group is very distant, and therefore existed when the universe was much younger than it is now. A quasar is a very energetic black-hole-powered galactic nucleus. Quasars first appeared in the very early universe, soon after the Big Bang. The light from a quasar is so intense that it can be visible from across the universe.

A remarkable thing about the new discovery is that the structure is larger than cosmological theory says is possible.

The currently accepted Cosmological Principle, based on the work of Albert Einstein, suggests that the largest structures we should be able to find would be about 370 megaparsecs across (more than 1.2 billion light-years). The newly found quasar group is 1,200 megaparsecs across, a distance that would take four billion years to cross at the speed of light.

The largest structures that we know that are close to Earth are super clusters of galaxies surrounding vast voids in space. The Sloan Great Wall is the largest such structure and is at the top end of the size limit set by the Cosmological Principle.

Ha Ha DP, maybe that "Norris Principle" is right while the "Cosmological Principle" is wrong..wow who would have thought????

Medical Malpractice Stats:

Med malpractice kills 225,000 people each year (National Institute of Health).
12,000 people die each year from unnecessary surgery (New York Times).
Just 2% of all people injured file legal claims for compensation (Healthgrades study).
Preventable medical errors in hospitals killed 195,000 people in 2002.
The side effects of medication kill 106,000 people annually (Journal of the American Medical Association).
50% of all med mallegal claims are filed against surgeons (Bureau of Justice Statistics).
1,500,000 people suffer injury or death from medication errors each year (Institute of Medicine).

Meanwhile, in the U.S. here are the numbers on other causes of death from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

A smoke (tobacco, I'll leave the other stuff to the professionals) and a few drinks normally starts my weekend but then I realize that my weekend is filled with work...

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A smoke (tobacco laced with LSD, scopolamine, and THC; I'll leave the other stuff to the professionals) and a few drinks of absinthe normally starts my morning, but then I realize that my day is filled with work...

I just read an essay called "On the Pleasure of Hating" and found it oddly fascinating simply due to the fact that it was someone talking frankly about human nature, something that has become lost in today's society, which has became far too hypersensitive for my tastes.

You wake up in the morning and have eggs and coffee. Then you regain senses and realise that there’s work to do later in the day. Then you do what you need to do in order to cope with the stress (and leave the hard stuff to the professionals).

You wake up in the morning and have eggs and coffee. Then you regain senses and realise that there’s work to do later in the day. Then you do what you need to do in order to cope with the stress (and leave the hard stuff to the professionals).

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It is important to start the day with a good breakfast. I prefer a simple, nutritious breakfast consisting of imports from Sweden and Russia.

To bring sanity to this very crazy world one must believe in the concept of being in the right place at the right time. My anecdote that endorses this principle started quite randomly...I needed an evening that would not yield a huge profit from my nightly enterprises and that night needed to be fairly temperate in a potentially volatile midwinter subtropical climate...i.e. a not frigid night when no big conventions were in town in the City Beautiful (Orlando, FL). That combo let me take care of a "needed service" to my community without sacrificing the old do-re-mi one must come up with to survive.

Because all these variables were met, I was able to seek out every garbage can in our City Beautiful, looking for a way to explain my futility when I encountered a gift from an anonymous, kind angel...a 3/4-full bottle of Grey Goose just asking to be taken home for a delightful evening! I had forgotten how much fun a good 80-proof French wheat vodka companion could be! All that French hoo-er asked for was a cup of ice and a bit of fruitjuice to wash her down with! A "cheap date" indeed!

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Are you sure that is enough caviar? Don't forget the eggs and smetana.

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That'a the problem with the modern society - mixing and matching. Eggs and smetana can wait.

I admit I might have an addiction to salmon caviar. It's expensive and damaging but not as expensive and damaging as a cocaine addiction, for instance. Maybe I should fight the addiction by adversity - purchase ten kilos of salmon roe for the evening and eat it until I don't want to eat it anymore.

It is cruel to submit submit people to the cruelties of STP or Moscow hotel systems. The mayor of Moscow holds a monopoly through his wife and the situation in STP is no better. At Grand Hotel or Baltschug people pay through the nose for shabby rooms filled with residues of blood, sperm, sweat, and dangerous chemicals.

Danish women are the best thing about the pancake country nestled between the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Danish women are the coolest women in Scandinavia. That being said, Danish spies are incompetent, even worse than Swedish spies.

When I order a Danish in America I'm actually asking for an Austrian, thanks to a labor strike in 19th century Denmark that resulted in emigration from Austria of unskilled bakers to "The Pancake Nation". Confusing, no?